Various Farm Rankings
With many prospect lists having already been completed, or at least nearing completion, a few sites/publications have released farm, or organizational talent, rankings. Here are some notable top fives.

John Sickels
Sickels notes that this is the first such list he’s ever produced and that, in many cases, there is an apples-to-oranges situation going on. (Or, if you’re Romanian, grandmothers-to-machine guns.) Note that this list was produced on January 23rd.

Using Victor Wang’s Prospect Valuation Research
This is the most explicity analytical of the rankings lists here. SB Nations user dougdirt, using Victor Wang’s work on valuating prospects monetarily, assigns dollar amoungs to every prospect grade given by John Sickels and then, more or less, adds up the worth of all the graded propsects. While lacking in premium talent, the Padres benefit from having a number of prospects with at least some kind of value.

I wrote some compelling notes on said projections, but then managed to delete them entirely. So, in any case, here are some of the notable projections (with very brief comments) accompanied by rough WAR translations (for hitters per 600 plate appearances and pitchers per 200 innings). All numbers assume major-league competition. OPS+ and ERA+ are park-adjusted.